Photographers

Ron Haviv

BIOGRAPHY

Ron Haviv is an Emmy nominated, award-winning photojournalist and co-founder of the photo agency VII, dedicated to documenting conflict and raising awareness about human rights issues around the globe.

In the last three decades, Haviv has covered more than twenty five conflicts and worked in over one hundred countries. He has published three critically acclaimed collections of photography, and his work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries, including the Louvre, the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Haven’s photographs are in the collections at The Houston Museum of Fine Arts and George Eastman House, among others, as well as numerous private collections.

Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war and his photography has had singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President George H.W. Bush citied Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

His film work has appeared on PBS’s Need to Know and Frontline as well as NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight. He has directed short films for ESPN, People Magazine, Doctors Without Borders, Asia Society, and American Photography.

His first book, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year,” by The Los Angeles Times and “A chilling but vastly important record of a people’s suffering,” by Newsweek. His two other monographs are Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul and Haiti: 12 January 2010.

Haviv has helped create multi-platform projects for Doctors Without Borders’ DR Congo: The Forgotten War and Starved for Attention, UNICEF’s Child Alert for Darfur and Sri Lanka and the International Committee of the Red Cross’s World at War.

Young Darfuri girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons to gather firewood. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood. Darfur, Sudan, 2005Inquire about this image

A 12 year old girl (striped scarf) explains how she was separated from her 2 friends and raped by soldiers from the Sudanese government. Darfur, Sudan, 2005Inquire about this image

Internally Displaced People (IDP) at the Tche camp in the eastern part of the Ituri province. The people from the Hema tribe fled their homes after attacks. Congo, 2009.Inquire about this image

Ozias Kambale Pimo, 11, is told his parents are still alive and that he will be reunited with them soon by the ICRC. Democratic Republic of Congo, 2009 Inquire about this image

A displaced Muslim girl takes up shelter at a destroyed mosque after fleeing a government offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Many civilians were killed and wounded, and thousands were displaced as a result. Sri Lanka, 2007 Inquire about this image

Rwandan Hutu refugees at a camp. Thousands of Hutus died of a cholera epidemic after escaping Rwanda where they were responsible for the killing of almost one million Tutsis. Zaire, 1994 Inquire about this image

A U.S. Marine covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with a U.S. flag before the statue was toppled in Baghdad, April 9, 2003. Inquire about this image

A Serbian couple kisses after the fall of Vukovar. The city was under siege for 3 months. Croatia, 1991Inquire about this image

Members of Arkan's Serbian paramilitary group, the Tigers, execute unarmed Bosnian muslim civilians during the first battle of the Bosnian war. 1992Inquire about this image

A Muslim man begs for his life from the Serbian paramilitary unit known as the Tigers and led by warlord Arkan during the first battle for the war in Bosnia. He was later thrown from a window during an interrogation and not seen again. Bosnia, 1992Inquire about this image

Serbian Tiger leader Zeljko Raznatovic or Arkan poses with his paramilitary unit, waving the Serbian flag, and a baby tiger that he liberated from a Croatian zoo in Erdut, Croatia, in the fall of 1991. Arkan's Tigers were responsible for a large part of the ethnic cleansing that occurred at the beginning of the war in Bosnia.Inquire about this image

A defaced family photograph of a Bosnian family. The familyreturned to their home after the Dayton Peace accordsand found the entire house stripped of everything except forthis photo. 1996Inquire about this image

A Bosnian Muslim soldier collapses in grief in the front yard of his destroyed home. It was alleged that over 60 people, killed by Serbian forces, were buried in the front yard. Bosnia, 1995Inquire about this image

Suspected gang members, some wanted for murder, are presented to members of the media by the National Police in San Salvador, Aug. 18, 2005.Inquire about this image

Young girls wait outside the home of Nelson Mandela the day after his release from prison after serving 27 years. South Africa, 1990.Inquire about this image

Egyptians gather in Tahir Square to protest the Mubarak government on the "Day of Martyrs" for those killed. Egypt, 2011.Inquire about this image

Egyptians gather in Tahir Square to protest the Mubarak government on the "Day of Martyrs" for those killed. Egypt, 2011.Inquire about this imageA rebel soldier jumps off Colonel Qaddafi's famous statue at his former Bab al-Aziziya compound. Libya, 2011.Inquire about this image

Supporters of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega attack elected Vice President Guillermo (Billy) Ford in Panama City, May 10, 1989.
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Haitians flee for the countryside days after the initial earthquake. Most people are complaining of a lack of food. Haiti, 2010Inquire about this image

Georgian prisoners of war arrive at a hospital after being exchanged for Russian soldiers in Tbilisi, Georgia on Aug. 19, 2008. They were greeted by family members and friends.Inquire about this image

German children run alongside the Berlin wall as the wall came down and reunified East and West Germany. Germany, 1989Inquire about this image

TESTIMONY

November 1, 2013 – February 15, 2014

Testimony, Haviv’s first solo exhibition at Anastasia Photo, spanned 23 years and 18 countries, from Bosnia to Haiti to Libya. He has documented three genocides and over thirty conflicts worldwide. Through Haviv’s lens, we see come to life the dramatic moments, which define our shared history – revolutions won and lost, crimes of war, reunited families and victorious freedom fighters.

The exhibition covered Haviv’s legacy. These images remind us not only of the photographer’s role in documenting history but also in shaping it. “I believe and have dedicated my life to witnessing history in an attempt to create a body of evidence that holds people accountable,” said Ron Haviv.